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They got an income from a farming operation which would be an ideal method if it were handled properly. It probably was well handled originally.

I've had many a tenant farmer explain to me that it's a perfect method, that it's just what he wants, that it's the only way a young man can over get ahead. He gets a good piece of land as a tenant. He farms that land and works it well. He gets a good crop and saves some money. He makes another good crop.

We practically never had tenancy in New England. The people who have defended it most strongly have been the midwestern group who have made their pile that way. They make their pile as a tenant and then they buy a farm for themselves. Then they buy more land and they have tenants on their land. You're a farmer's son, then a tenant, then an owner.

Sharecropping is an ancient way of operating land. That's different than farm tenancy, but that too is a very good way of doing things if it's handled right and if the conditions are favorable. It's the way in which a man who hasn't got the money to finance himself on a farm can make a living in a farming area. If he makes a good crop and his share is fair, he has some money left at the end.

Another term for all this becomes cooperation, which